I'm new to DRF (and pretty new to Django and Python in general). I'm trying
to build a simple API endpoint. But I'm having trouble figuring out the
best approach.
1. The endpoint accepts a request payload similar to the following (this is
contrived):
{
"employee_id": 123,
"favorite_flavor": "chocolate",
"subscribe_to_updates": true,
"cats_or_dogs": "cats"
}
Obviously, I would like to validate this payload before doing anything
further with it.
2. The endpoint then creates several related records in the database. Note
that the request payload is *not* a direct 1-to-1 representation of a
Django ORM model. Instead, employee_id gets saved to one table, and
favorite_flavor and subscribe_to_updates get saved to a second table.
Perhaps cats_or_dogs doesn't get saved to the database at all – maybe it
just triggers an email send, or writes a file to disk, or something like
that.
3. Finally, I would like the endpoint to return an arbitrary JSON payload,
which differs from both the request payload *and* the model structure:
{
"recommended_dessert": "Black Forest Cake",
"subscription_id": 5827,
"cat_name": "Fluffy",
"some_nested_object": {
"foo": "bar"
}
}
How can I do this? DRF provides a dizzying array of ways to do things, and
I can't quite figure out which combination is best for my case.
Thanks!
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